María Labarta Postigo is a professor at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia (Spain). She graduated in Hispanic and Germanic Philology at the Free University (FU) Berlin, where she also completed her Ph.D. studies in Linguistics and Computer Science. She has professional experience in graduate and postgraduate courses in Spain, Germany, and Brazil. She has carried out research projects in several universities around the world, including Germany (FU), Norway (UiO), New Zealand (UC Christchurch), Argentina (UBA), Brazil (UERJ, UFI, UFBA and UFAL) and USA (UC Berkeley and CUNY). Her main research areas are Foreign Language Teaching, Culture and Interculturality, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Multilingual Translation.